Jewish Identity Politics

Famous quotes containing the words jewish, identity and/or politics:

“What was lost in the European cataclysm was not only the Jewish past—the whole life of a civilization—but also a major share of the Jewish future.... [ellipsis in source] It was not only the intellect of a people in its prime that was excised, but the treasure of a people in its potential.”
—Cynthia Ozick (b. 1928)

“An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)

“In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.”
—Cecil Parkinson (b. 1932)